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editDo these two sentences have the same Spanish translation?
edit"This policy is good." and "This politician (female) is good."? If they share the same translation, is there a specific term that describes this phenomenon? StellarHalo (talk) 01:08, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
- Están homónimas. They are homonyms. <-Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots-> 01:39, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
- More like polisemia. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
- Esta polisemia es buena. --Lambiam 19:31, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
- This is no Polysemy. According to the article, polysemy is an accidental similarity between two or more words. Bumptump (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- Read that sentence in the article again, carefully. --Lambiam 20:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, I stand corrected. I read it the other way round. Bumptump (talk) 09:54, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Read that sentence in the article again, carefully. --Lambiam 20:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- This is no Polysemy. According to the article, polysemy is an accidental similarity between two or more words. Bumptump (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- Esta polisemia es buena. --Lambiam 19:31, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
- More like polisemia. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)